News Tata Sky to get more satellite capacity courtesy GSAT 10

[aumnamonarayan]

Next 2 GSAT launches are not @ 83E, so not sure whether they have planned for any replacement satellite for Insat 4A as ISRO had claimed GSAT 10 to be replacement for Insat 4A

Yes bro
It was meant to be a replacement which is why when ISRO offered GSat10 to Tata Sky as replacement ,they rejected the offer. Also after that we saw articles that tata sky has also decided to move to a foreign satellite.

May after long discussions with tata sky, ISRO must have agreed to give Gsat10 as additional satellite and replace Insat 4A with a new sat later. May be it will be GSat17 or GSat18. Also there is a sat with vacant Ku band tp's at 55 degree east and 74 degree east, may be they will move it to 83 degree east later.

Anyways whatever they do is their headache. Here this situation is beneficial to both as tata sky saved millions of dollars which would have been needed had they migrated to foreign satellite as transponders on foreign sat r much more costly and then there would have been money required to realign all dishes to new position. Also ISRO gained as they would get revenue from tata sky which would not have been the case had they moved to a foreign sat.

So just do Balle Balle! Tata Sky is in an awesome mood to just keep adding channels

 

[Shiwesh Kumar]

Tata Sky has become so aggressive these days that I am ready to believe anything. Earlier they were so conservative even if they had some space available. And now it is clear that all these V signals were from GSAT 10 and they had real big challenge in dealing with dual signals.

 

[Deepu]

May be ISRO wants to retain Tata Sky as their customer as they are the only Private DTH operator still using Indian satellite

 

[aumnamonarayan]

May be ISRO wants to retain Tata Sky as their customer as they are the only Private DTH operator still using Indian satellite

Yes bro and hence both parties would have mutually agreed to a solution

 

[Deepu]

Tata Sky has become so aggressive these days that I am ready to believe anything. Earlier they were so conservative even if they had some space available. And now it is clear that all these V signals were from GSAT 10 and they had real big challenge in dealing with dual signals.

They are very aggressive when it comes to pricing of their packages, only recently they have been aggressive in adding channels

 

[Deepu]

If ISRO really wants DTH operators to use Indian Satellites, then we can see GSAT 15 being used by Sun Direct & Dish TV along with DD Free Dish

 

[Sanjeev]

So what about Insat 4a retirement have they renewed their contract with ISRO for that and good to see something for Gsat 10

 

[Sanjeev]

Also the article says that tata sky will not use asiasat 8 as they will use both satellites so maybe in next update they will remove those tps details from STB

 

[aumnamonarayan]

Also the article says that tata sky will not use asiasat 8 as they will use both satellites so maybe in next update they will remove those tps details from STB

Don't go by the names in tp settings. One can name any tp anything, it does not matter

 

[Sanjeev]

But they should think to use asiasat 8 satellite